Person

Roth, Henry Ling (1855 - 1925)

Born
3 February 1855
London, England
Died
12 May 1925
Leeds, England
Occupation
Anthropologist and Museum curator

Summary

Henry Roth spent several years in Queensland 1878-1884, reporting widely on the sugar industry. He wrote "The Tasmanian Aborigines", an encyclopaedic work which remained the basic source until 1966. He left Australia in 1884 and set up a business in Halifax, Yorkshire, UK and was also first the part-time then full-time curator of the Bankfield Museum.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1876 - 1877
Career position - Timber merchant in Russia
1878 - 1884
Career position - Investigated and reported on the sugar industry in Queensland
1881 - 1884
Career position - Honorary Secretary to the Mackay Planters' Association
1884
Life event - Left Australia
1890
Career position - The Tasmanian Aborigines written
1890 - 1912
Career position - Curator (part-time) at Bankfield Museum
1912 - 1924
Career position - Curator at Bankfield Museum

Published resources

Books

  • Khan, Kate, Catalogue of the Roth Collection of Aboriginal artefacts from north Queensland, vol. 1: items collected from Archer River, Atherton, Bathurst Head, Bloomfield River and Butcher's Hill, 1897-1901 (Sydney: Australian Museum, 1993), 205 pp. Details
  • Roth, Henry Ling, The Aborigines of Australia, vol. 224 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1890). Details
  • Roth, Henry Ling, The Aborigines of Tasmania (Halifax, England: F. King & Sons, 1899), xix, 228, ciii pp. Details
  • Roth, Herny Ling, The Aborigines of Tasmania (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1890), xxvii, 224, cx pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Griffin, Helga M., 'Roth, Henry Ling (1855-1925), anthropologist, author and museum curator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 461-462. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110469b.htm. Details
  • McDougall, Russell, 'Walter and Henry Ling Roth: "On the Significance of Couvade": the Place of Australia and British Guiana in the Fin de Siècle Debate Concerning the History of Humanity' in To the Islands: Australia and the Caribbean, McDougall, Russell, ed. (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002), pp. 61-67. Details

Journal Articles

  • Taylor, Rebe, 'The first stone and the last Tasmanian: the colonial correspondence of Edward Burnett Tylor and Henry Ling Roth', Oceania, 86 (3) (2016), 320-43. Details

Resources

See also

  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

Rosanne Walker

Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 2 March 2018

EOAS ID: biogs/P002533b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002533b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260